Research interests

Stefan studies healthcare management and has specific interests in the transformation of local health ecosystems and in the determinants and consequences of clinical decisions in patient flow systems. He has a methodological interest in causal modelling techniques and their applications to large routinely collected healthcare datasets. Stefan's research is strongly practice-based and embedded in collaborations with hospitals and primary care practices in and around Cambridge.

Professional experience

Stefan teaches business analytics and healthcare management on the Cambridge MBA and develops and co-teaches leadership programmes for clinicians and healthcare managers.

He is the founding director of the Cambridge Centre for Health Leadership & Enterprise, chair of the board of Granta Medical Practices in Cambridgeshire and holds honorary appointments at Cambridge University Hospitals and the Royal Papworth Hospital.

Stefan is editor of the healthcare management department of Management Science. He was previously an associate editor of Operations Research, Mathematics of Operations Research, SIAM Journal on Optimization and the IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis, and an associate editor for healthcare of the Journal of Operations Management.

Previous appointments

Before joining Cambridge Judge Business School in 1996, Stefan taught operations research at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany and at the University of Cambridge's Engineering Department, where he retains a courtesy faculty position. Prior to his appointment as Dennis Gillings Professor of Health Management in 2010, he was Professor of Management Science and Head of the Management Science group at Cambridge Judge Business School.

Stefan has held visiting positions at Stanford, MIT and London Business School.